Engineering group Clough and its joint venture partner Curtain have won $75 million worth works associated with the PNG LNG upstream infrastructure project.
Brickworks defended its four-decade-long cross-shareholding with Washington H Soul Pattison, but insists it has not shut the door on ending the arrangement.
Perth-based explorers Windward Resources and Auroch Resources have dipped their toes into a tough IPO market, raising a combined $5 million through initial public offerings that closed today.
Petroleum giant Shell has rejected Premier Colin Barnett's criticism of floating LNG projects, saying the revolutionary technology is the likely saviour of the industry in Australia as rising costs
Deputy opposition leader Julie Bishop has accused Julia Gillard of helping to conceal a controversial legal entity set up by two union officials in the 1990s by not creating a file on the advice sh
Living rich is surprisingly difficult, as Perth commuters are discovering, but if WA's economic success is stretching services today, just wait until the real boom starts and the State looks even m
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has committed a coalition government to creating one million jobs over the next five years and two million jobs within a decade.
Australia could face a recession as within two years unless the dollar and interest rates fall and major labour market reforms are introduced, a leading economist warns.
Uranium miner Energy Resources of Australia expects to post a full-year loss of between $135 million and $155 million in fiscal 2012, as it continues to cut costs amid difficult market conditions.
Continental Coal shares jumped by more than 20 per cent on the ASX today, after it announced first production from its Penumbra coal mine in South Africa.
Shares in newly-listed explorer Dacian Gold have jumped on the ASX, after the company commenced drilling at its Mt Morgans gold project near Laverton ahead of schedule.
The Australian share market has closed slightly higher as investors await more movement on addressing Greece's debt and the so-called fiscal cliff in the United States.
The Australian resources sector is well placed for the future although it could be held back because of higher costs and a lack of competitiveness, industry chiefs say.
Treasurer Wayne Swan has used parliamentary question time to raise the achievements of the Labor government after five years of power, saying it has been endorsed by the International Monetary Fund
Western Australia's firefighters are battling dud radios, a lack of basic equipment and budget cuts, despite a succession of devastating bushfires in the past three years, a parliamentary comm
Australia will find it difficult to achieve meaningful economic growth without boosting productivity through micro-economic reform, National Australia Bank chairman Michael Chaney says.
Western Australia is currently at the forefront of global oil and gas activity, and international demand should ensure it will stay there for some time, one of Shell Australia's top executives says
